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Jul 21, 2015 · Arts. Exhibition Review. A Series on Mexican Noir Films Illuminates a Dark Genre. In the movies featured in the Museum of Modern Art’s ‘Mexico at Midnight,’ characters grapple with a...
El automóvil gris is a film noir that starts almost at the dawn of Mexico's cinematography in 1919, and this universe is further expanded with the works of the Chilean filmmaker, José Bohr and...
Mar 16, 2016 · The Golden Age of Mexican cinema extended from the mid-1930s to the early 1960s, when Mexican films dominated Latin America and made significant inroads into Spanish-speaking communities throughout North America.
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- Crime and Noir: The 1940s
- An Alternative Mexico: Emilio Fernández and Gabriel Figueroa
- Rumberas: Late 1940s and 1950s
- Macario and Mexicanness: 1960
The 1940s were a boom period for Mexican cinema thanks in large part to increased investment from the United States and the development of the Banco Cinematografico, a fund aimed at modernising production means. It was a decade that bore witness to the growth of the fledgling Mexican auteur cinema – directors like Fernández, Roberto Gavaldón, Jul...
At the same time that noirs were enjoying popularity at the Mexican box office, one of the Golden Age’s most important and prolific directors, Emilio Fernández, was also gaining notoriety (both at home and abroad) for a wholly different kind of cinema. In her 2012 book on Fernández, Dolores Tierney highlights the period between 1943 and 1950 as o...
Though reportedly with some reluctance, Fernández also began making urban films at the end of the 1940s, perhaps because by then his formulaic model was beginning to fall out of favour with Mexican audiences. Films like Salón México (1949) and Victims of Sin(Víctimas del pecado, 1951) represent a transition from the director’s rural, more natio...
Towards the end of the Golden Age, Gavaldón made Macario(1960), a magic-realist fantasy set in colonial Mexico about a poor peasant who makes a pact with Death. Featuring extraordinary photography by Figueroa, the film is ostensibly a folk tale that weaves a fascination with death (both Gavaldón’s and Mexico’s) into a narrative about a poor campe...
The series of Mexican Detective Film Noir of the Golden Age, consisting of seven films, is part of a project that seeks to expand the outreach, screening, preservation and digitalization of more works of the genre. In the first presentation of Another Dawn at the 12 th FICM, the following statements were made:
Check out MoMA’s website for more information on this repertory film series from 2015. “Of all the great national, popular cinemas that prospered in the 20th century, the one that remains least well known to American audiences is, paradoxically, the one that originated closest to Hollywood. The Mexican cinema’s época de oro extended from the mid-1930s to the early 1960s, when Mexican ...
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Jul 23, 2015 · Film Noir from Mexican. Cinema’s Golden Age. Jul 23–29, 2015. MoMA. View all events. Film series. Of all the great national, popular cinemas that prospered in the 20th century, the one that remains least well known to American audiences is, paradoxically, the one that originated closest to Hollywood.
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